The feted

Heidi Michitsch, Maria Esposito, Amy Phelan, Tandra Johnson, and Mitra Margolis at Pink Elephant for New York Junior League's Most Outstanding Volunteer Party for Amy Phelan.

Last Friday night, Placido Dominigo was feted at Doubles with a birthday party by his friends and supporters of the Washington National Opera. Among the guests were the Honorable Selwa (Lukcy) Roosevelt, former US Chief of Protocol, Jane Lipton Cafritz, chairman of the WNO and her husband Calvin, Bass-bariton James Morris, Clarice Smith (DC philanthropist and wife of recently deceased former National Gallery President Robert H. Smith), and Emily Rafferty of NewYork.

Daren Thomas and Bonnie McElveen-Hunter

Connie Kline, Geoffrey Pohanka, and Anne Kline

Nina Lesavoy and Robert Steel (former US Under Secretary of the Treasury)

The Ambassador of the Russian Federation Sergey Kislyak and Jacqueline Mars

Wendy Carduner and Maestro Domingo

Max Berry and Nina Lesavoy

Maestro Domingo and Jacqueline Mars

Diana Prince, Jay Haft, and Marta Domingo

Clayre and Jay Haft

Photographs by Cutty McGill

Monday in New York ... Grammy Award winning violin virtuoso Joshua Bell teamed with chef Brian Lewis of the Bedford Post Inn to host an intimate salon and cocktail reception for “Education Through Music,” a non-profit organization with Bell’s Music Unites. Both are dedicated to bringing music instruction to at-risk children at inner-city public and parochial schools who would otherwise have no or limited exposure to the arts.